Nagpur accounts for 24 of 27 cases in Vidarbha

Nagpur: The Nagpur district accounted 24 out of 27 new Covid-19 cases reported in Vidarbha in last 24 hours. This means, other 10 districts in the region together reported only three cases. On the other hand, 11 patients recovered from the region, with three each from Chandrapur and Amravati and two each from Yavatmal and Nagpur. This indicates that majority of patients are recovering faster in Vidarbha.
No death due to Covid-19 was reported on Saturday.Only four deaths have been reported in last 25 days of December. Together these developments indicate that Nagpur district, especially city is witnessing more Covid-19 positive cases while other parts of Vidarbha, especially rural parts are largely safe and no surge or spike is being noticed anywhere in the region.
The number of under-treatment patients in Vidarbha also shows the same thing. Out of total 127 under-treatment patients, 79 are in Nagpur district alone. Out of them, 67 are from Nagpur city. After Nagpur, comes Yavatmal, where 11 patients are under treatment.
Barring these two districts, no other district in the region is having more than 10 patients under treatment. Washim and Bhandara have zero patients, Wardha and Gondia have two each, Akola and Amravati have six each, Chandrapur has five, Buldhana nine and Gadchiroli seven. Moreover, majority of these patients are in home isolation. Only in Nagpur, home isolation is not allowed, so all positive patients are admitted in institutional facilities.
Amravati: None of the 834 samples tested in last 24 hours came positive in the district on Saturday. With three more recoveries today, the total went up to 94,605 and the number of active cases under treatment fell further down to just six. There wasn’t any Covid death.
Wardha: None was detected positive from 439 tests of Saturday while no new recovery or death was reported in district. The caseload, recoveries and toll remained unchanged as 49,441, 48,106 and 1,326 respectively. The active positive patients under treatment are 1,326 in district as on Saturday.
Yavatmal: District has no death report during last 24 hours on Saturday, keeping the toll unchanged at 1,788. Currently there are 11 active positive patients under treatment. The administration received 808 test reports of which a man from Pusad was found positive. Of the 72,975 positive patients, 71,176 including one patient have recovered. The test positivity rate is 9.35%, death rate is 2.45% and daily positivity rate is 0.12%. The administration has kept 1,765 beds for Covid patients in the hospitals across the district.
Chandrapur: There were just five Covid active patients left under treatment after three discharge and solitary detection on Saturday. The day again remained casualty free. The lone patient was found in Chandrapur city. A total of 1,337 Covid tests were conducted during the day. Covid caseload has inched up to 88,882 which includes 87,334 recoveries and 1,543 deaths. A total of 7,92,904 samples have been tested so far, out of these 7,02,736 have been found negative.
Bhandara: District regained a zero Covid tag on Saturday as the only patient who was under treatment in Bhandara recovered. All 417 tests conducted in last 24 hours were negative.
Gondia: All 98 tests conducted in Gondia in last 24 hours were negative. The district has only two patients under treatment and both of them are in home isolation.
Gadchiroli: All 603 tests conducted in last 24 hours in Gadchiroli resulted in negative. Neither a recovery was reported in a day. Now, Gadchiroli has seven patients under treatment.
Washim: The district maintained its zero Covid tag as no new case was reported on Saturday. All tests conducted in last 24 hours were negative.
Buldhana: One out of total 515 tests done in last 24 hours was positive in Buldhana. No recovery was reported. The number of total under-treatment patients increased to nine on Saturday.
Akola: All 273 tests conducted in Akola on Saturday were negative. As no new patient was reported, the number of under treatment patients remained at six.